the algerian hostage crisis reportedly rise to twenty five while it is suggested that france's mali intervention which provoked the terrorist attack is actually a resource grabbing operation. hundreds of friends and supporters of internet freedom activist and swartz to gather for his memorial with his family maintaining the computer prodigy was driven to suicide by prosecutors and a looming trial against him. and as pakistan agrees to dissolve parliament in the face of protests over corruption allegations in the capital r.t. talks to the man behind the anti-government.

broadcasting live at direct from our studios in moscow this is r.t. certainly glad to have you with us. algerian at media is reporting that the number of hostages who died in the gas plant siege has risen to twenty five and is expected to increase several foreign civilians were among those killed when algerian forces stormed the site taken by islamic militants in revenge for the french intervention in neighboring mali there are increasing fears of the military campaign could backfire on paris while some analysts say there is more to it than meets the eye as the reports. we don't always but it's terrorism was about to overwhelm the friendly country the terrorism that threatens not just all of west africa but also the entire world good morning he's vowed that france won't stop its

intervention in mali until islamic extremism in the country is stamped out the military has announced that it's going to be sending more troops but potential set to exceed two hundred thousand the stated goal to help the government in bamako drive out his limits to insurgents before the francoise lands talk of freedom and democracy critics say the french government you see as a for the military offensive could be linked to other elements u.a.d. of these fronts. many people say a huge cost is a huge factor in its economy and it's something that not only mali but specifically niger and other amazing parts where the tourist people reside. sits on top of almost every single light bulb in france runs on electricity generated by nuclear power power relies on a steady flow of pure rainy i'm so you don't have to be a nuclear physicist to figure out that to keep all these bright lights on the

french government depends on a steady flow of the precious natural resource but money says mr i learned it's not it's about power or money. and security this has nothing to do with any political issue from a different time if we are defending a government or business interests which government which business. some have their suspicions nationally supported the french energy company. is about to finish the second largest ukrainian mining plant in the world next to mali every year the cars to extract in this uranium is going to be very cheap there's a third world very cheap. france is playing a very dangerous game and after the french military offensive reportedly sparked a deadly hostage crisis in algeria lightbulbs are beginning to go off in the heads of ordinary citizens. i'm for intervention if it is to fight terrorism but

it's got to be for good reasons not of it's for raw materials that are in mali gas oil diamonds and gold. they don't think about democracy well we have made paris a huge target and france a target for terrorism. at least but with the prospect of untapped natural resources needed to keep fronts eliminated political analysts say that francois hollande promised to stop playing big brother to former colonies isn't going to be fulfilled anytime soon buddy boy can see paris. britain has stepped forward to help the french intervention by providing cargo planes to transfer supplies to the war zone but journalist and broadcaster neil clark says london's stance against islamist is inconsistent. what's happened here is that david cameron who spent most of last year cheering on islamist rebels in syria has

now taken the line that islam is. in mali of the biggest danger to the world and we must intervene that britain must help france regardless of the consequences just britain and i think it's a very misguided policy unfortunately the political elite in britain seem to be all behind his policy which is very disturbing but i think the public speaking for the public i think we're very concerned about what's going on we think back to twenty and then when it was david cameron and william hague people like this who were the loudest most aggressive cheerleaders for the deposing of colonel gadhafi who was the biggest work against al-qaeda in northern africa and now the very same people cameron in the hague are the ones saying we've got to get involved in the mali operation to put down al qaeda groups there and so there's a really consistency here real hypocrisy you know why is fighting ok africa is the biggest cause why do we play such an active role in talking to the one leader in northern africa who actually was it was a form of it's ok. hundreds of people gathered in new york to pay their respects to

aaron swartz an online freedom activist who hanged himself last week the twenty six year old computer prodigies suicide game ahead of his trial for cyber crimes which could have resulted in him spending decades behind bars this week in federal prosecutors dropped the charges against swartz his family and friends blame the government for his death an associate reports the crime downloading millions of academic papers in the public domain from a paid subscription database in the belief that they should be free. to essentially out too many books in the library the punishment facing thirty years behind bars and a million dollar fine you're looking at a crime that essentially amounts to download the p.d.f. so to a hard drive. no person was harmed there was no financial benefit murder received less punishment the result twenty six year old web wizard aaron swartz take. his own life the idea that he was facing decades in jail is is just

disgusting absolutely appalling and and now we've lost a tremendously valuable and talented human being while the plea bargain deal for only several months behind bars was reportedly a possible outcome the internet freedom crusader refused to be seen as a felon his family and supporters blame the prosecution's aggressive attempts to put swartz behind bars for his suicide this man a young man and his family were literally terrorized by the prosecutors and the judicial discretion that let this case go forward and not stop while authorities dubbed him a criminal supporter say he was a robin hood in the fight for freedom of information aaron swartz was a prodigy at fourteen he helped write the are assessed specific ation an online syndication system that allows users to consolidate feeds from numerous blog sites automatically instead of having to check each website individually the program is

now part of the common vocabulary of the internet and is used on a daily basis for publishing new stories from all over the world critics say u.s. officials wanted aaron sent down to set an example he was going up against policies and he knew would but he thought he would be in the clear in the law because he was only spreading public domain documents instead swartz's case has made an example of how seriously the internet is regulated in the us the laws under which he was indicted did back to nine hundred eighty four many believe they're long outdated the prison sentences need to be relaxed especially for supposed crimes like this where there was no economic motive where there was no way for him to profit even if they said even if he did all the things he did that they said he did new legislation dubbed aram's law has been proposed in the u.s. congress it's still unclear whether there will be any real change but what is clear is that it once again took a tragedy to galvanize national debate and party new york.

pakistan's government and a muslim cleric here greed on friday to bring an end to the mass protests in islamabad tens of thousands of his supporters and a sit in against widespread corruption and unemployment after convinced authorities to dissolve parliament in march voting should take place within ninety days the government also agreed to discussions on electoral reforms that all countries demanded that the army help set up an interim administration was rejected another sign of a deepening a political crisis is that the government with the supreme court its order to arrest of the prime minister over corruption allegations was dismissed soltan mohali journalist and a former pakistan air force officer says a change of power could be looming people are likening it to the square and so many other things but my personal feeling is that in all those uprisings there was not

a single leader around home people could rally but over here they have in the shape of a llama the whole cadre but there have been actually two or three different theories about the background of this man some say that because of his canadian nationality and because of his longer stay in the west he may have been one motivated as well as funded by the west there is another theory that he may be a stooge of the military the fact is that whoever has launched this particular person has done his homework because if the man has captured the spirit and imagination of a people. the feeling that they were down drug did and they were driven against of all because of bad governance because of the peril of situation because of lack of energy lack of food and lack of jobs people are joining in flocks and even those who are double minded are now trying to make sure that it matters if history has to change of this country. rees anti-government slogans are driven by the discontent

over corruption and a flawed electoral system included it calls for a revolution or two spoke exclusively to the protest leader who told us exactly what he means. when i see evolution we should keep in your mind in egypt in tunis in libya and all these countries. we needed a dictatorship for years and years for a long time. and the people stood up against that indeed on the rise it would add a key a rule of shock that people stood up against that. dystonic is big different. it is not rude neither monadic elude nor a military dictatorship here it is electoral authority did it when he gave his electoral dictatorship true democracy does not exist in this society neither in political field nor in social feed not in economic field not democracy so this is a lot less and less total chaos and anarchy in this country government is totally

dysfunctional. saw that this is the single nation single country in the whole muslim world and in nuclear capability and if the same situation continues it would be a very big disaster if we could come to the level of collapse so out of this margin movement is anti corruption to educate our society from corruption and this is need of the whole muslim world. and alternative world and developing muslim countries the have to get to the end of corruption and corrupt leaders. and still to come in the program a dwindling support as it really is prepared to head to the polls on tuesday we look into why the country's a prime minister benjamin netanyahu is losing many of his former voters. plus political opponents and slam britain's prime minister david cameron for dodging the e.u.

issue as he yet again delays his long awaited speech on the u.k.'s future role within the union he stories and more after a short break right here on r.t. . you know you see a story. you think you understand it. and realized. it was a big. secret

lover tour. was to build a new. mission to teach creation why you should care about. this is why you should care only. fourteen on a sunday evening here in a moscow live this is our team glad to have you back with us israel will elected to parliament in two days' time and prime minister benjamin netanyahu is predicted to come out on top yet many israelis today don't think he's being a radical enough. why many of netanyahu is right wing allies are changing their minds. he's the surprise success story in campaign one tween millionaire who says a palestinian state would be suicide for israel naftali bennett used to work for

prime minister netanyahu but now he's working at taking supporters away from him like this man who used to be a diehard supporter of netanyahu so he could party until these elections rolled around the likud is. a bus full of right wing members of knesset with a left wing person driving the bus. as far as being i mean. yes even though i am opposed to state. i would say most members of the likud obviously is for it the irony is that while the world sees netanyahu as a want to leader at home he's losing face among our supporters for not being focused enough this is part of the right wing campaign he's up against there are some things we all know one never happen in the sopranos and never return for another season. pro and a peace agreement with the palestinians will not happen promises like this have

been a jewish home party in food position it's poised to take more than twelve percent of parliamentary seats analysts say netanyahu while still expected to serve another term is running scared he's up his rhetoric i say in the most clear of terms the western wall is not occupied territory i don't care what the un says we will build in jerusalem because it's our right not on your hands he could list has grown even more wide when i was ready because like this woman high up in the pecking order. the league would be taken apart it is a party with values the state of israel is a state of the jews prison eternal capital. but what will be the implications of such rhetoric after the elections many israelis are asking themselves about the day after will netanyahu become more rightwing and risk drawing israel into conflicts with its neighbors or will he back down and risk losing face among his supporters. is hoping for the latter that

netanyahu will listen to world opinion and reach a compromise with the palestinians he knows all too well what the current cycle of violence can bring speakers daughter was killed in a suicide bombing seventeen years ago and. we don't have unfortunately in the center and the left. a leader who is significantly charismatic to lead this country and give its people hope when the left is also divided but i do think netanyahu will find a way to compromise because of world pressure but that compromise won't come easy enough to be bennett solution to the israeli palestinian conflict is to annex most of the west bank while allowing palestinians a limited so through in the west and while that might not seem a plausible idea to most of the international community it's exactly what his constituency wants to hear a fact netanyahu is acutely aware of policy r.t. television. r.t.

will be closely following the election on the twenty second of january giving you in-depth coverage how will tension with to run develop will settle but expand just isolate chand there be peace with jazz and what's next in relations with america we'll let you know who survived his snap election on january twenty second . israel decides on arts and. british prime minister david cameron this week again and postponed a crucial speech on his country's future relations with the european union but excerpts from his speech were released they give a little away other than that the pm or believes the e.u. must address its key challenges immediately otherwise the union would fail and britain could drift towards an exit but the leader of the u.k. independence party told us that leaving the e.u. was never on cameron's agenda. he's using euro skeptic language to pursue a euro agenda in this speech is happening because of the rise of you and the rise

of us give us led me for a massive discontent on the back benches in the house of commons and amongst the conservative party in the whole country and that's what he's responding to but the reality of what he says if you read the subtext is that the e.u. is very good for us but it serves our interests and i will promise i promise god to do my best over the next five years to do everything i can to keep britain a member of that you've made this issue is a key constitutional issue it isn't even about economics it's about who governs britain it's about i'll be independent nation as a democracy and determine their own future or not a classic scare tactics always employed by the status quo whether they're defending slavery or the cold laws or e.u. membership three million british jobs will be lost if we left the european union really europe is aging europe as a percentage of the world economy is now below a fifth and falling quite sharply it is gripped by eurozone crisis which is likely because of their fanaticism to keep it together to last for up to

a decade and yeah ok europe is thirty eight percent of our overseas exports and it's an important market place but the rest of the world is even more important to us and we're impotent because we're stuck inside this old fashioned nineteenth century concept of a customs union we cannot make our own trade deals anywhere else in the world let's have a free trade deal with europe like the swiss do and let's reengage with the rest of the world and while euro skepticism is on the rise in britain the e.u. the economic stronghold germany appears to be harboring concerns over its sovereignty as well as artie's peter all of are found out. there's a rising feeling here in germany that it's not the germans who were really in charge of their country. the government has taken the sovereign rights of the german people and given them away to bureaucrats in brussels specifically with regards to currency this is a painful injury to the sovereignty of germany the issue is said to be fought out in the second tightest court this group calling themselves the civil coalition

movement want to stop germany's fiscal future being decided by the european central bank particularly how much german cash goes to the eurozone countries and set the pressure to democracy because it's no longer the governments who have to make a policy but is the european central central bank deciding which policy is paid for over five thousand people back their petition as they look to challenge one of the most common pieces of perceived wisdom in europe that germany is the success story in the eurozone there was no other country which had so little benefits out of the euro if you come to look to the numbers according to their legal team those numbers showed germany being forced to pay for the euro zone countries despite this not being part of the deal when the single currency was created finance isn't the only

place where germans feel a grip is slipping one former german foreign minister gave different reasons why they may be issues with sovereignty suggesting that they have their root in the memory of the country's past but sometimes we shy back from our responsibility as our room states this is a problem not that we are pressed from the outside the defense is also a concern for those who believe germany is losing control of its sovereignty the country is still home to nato bases over twenty years after the end of the. cold war germany today faces no major military threats nor does any european state and that's why this gigantic military machine that the americans have built up is completely unlike christic there appear to be historical cultural and economic reasons why some germans feel less sovereignty is disappearing and for a group of lawyers getting ready for their legal battle with the european central

plank twenty thirty looks set to be an important year what they see is the fight to return german rule to the german people peter all of a r.t. berlin barack obama will officially begin his second presidential term in less than an hour when he takes the oath of office at the white house he is expected to paint the prospects for the next four years and pledge to deliver on some promises but so far he has failed to keep for more let us now go live to two economic anti-war activist kevin zeese who is in baltimore mr aziz thank you very much for being with us now you're improving the economy was one of the pillars that barack obama campaigned on four years back how far has he delivered on that pledge and where do you think the u.s. economy will be in another four years from now. well hunter fortunately the economy is still a shambles we have very high unemployment and underemployment we're growing at a tiny pace and there are some there saying we're about to go into

a recession the kinds of things that are being talked about by congress and the white house and the new treasury secretary point the jacob lew are going to make a recession more likely because they're talking about on this very austerity that will take more money out of the economy at the exact like bleeding the patient. in old malpractise it's we need to the opposite this country is a collapse is still going on we need to move toward more stimulus we need to be building the economy up not taking money out insuring it we're going to see an obama recession if that's the path they pursue and it's a path that's going to undermine the elderly and the poor because they're talking about cuts to social security medicare and medicaid as well as social programs are much needed some of it on to some international relations issues how much of an obstacle is obama's asian pivot to u.s. china relations. well that's you know the asian pivot is a massive change in policy of united states moving many resources into the asian

pacific area certainly in circling china in not just on land but also on the sea picking fights where china is in conflict with the surrounding countries taking the side of the surrounding country. i'm not sure what the end goal is to get china into an arms race is it actually war with china just intimidate but it's a very expensive proposition united states fifty five percent of u.s. federal grand jury spending goes in the military we've never seen a military cut under obama we've seen record military budgets record intelligence budgets record arms sales record homeland security budgets the national security state is well funded and everything else is under one now sticking with international relations obama's relationship with israeli prime minister netanyahu appears to be rocky at the moment do you see it deteriorating if netanyahu is reelected this week well that would be a good news it be the first sign of hope netanyahu kind of picked the wrong candidate in the election that the virtually endorsed romney brothers obama has

made very interesting on the nation a signatory defense in former senator chuck hagel who has been pretty outspoken against the israeli lobby lobby dominating u.s. foreign policy there were some initial criticisms of the lobby and from some pro israel senators and that seems to subside it looks like he was doing it in whether that will be the beginning of a new policy where there's some light between u.s. policy and israeli policy israel's really undermining u.s. national security every day it violates the rights of palestinians puts in place new settlements threatens iran it undermines our national security in that region the world so they find a way to back away from this total support for israel that really allows them to abuse the rights of palestinians and their neighbor was sticking with the region lots of focus on the middle east washington continues actually to slap more sanctions on iran will obama be able to talk iranians into opening up to the west.

well you know every time iran struck i'd open up to the rest was the u.s. has ignored them so it's not clear what the u.s. really wants we talk about opening up the rest we talk about you know trying to come to some kind of supply relationship with iran but in reality we never take the olive branch that software has been offered many times during the bush and obama years and it's been rejected so it seems to me we want to have the united states really continue cigs hedging money in that region we want to be the people who dominate you always in as the oil becomes runs out and gets more expensive so i suspect we're going to you see more civil war in syria and over the u.s. will get directly involved with these more sanctions to weaken iran and i only the way that we're going to work with iran is it completely become part of the u.s. empire i don't see that happening to share thoughts on the subject of us kevin zeese it'll be interesting four more years same administration by from baltimore thank you for being with us. and still to come in the program lucky to be alive. a man survived after falling out of a moving train half naked in the middle of

a freezing siberian forest find out more in just a couple minutes right here. yet another tragic shooting right on the streets of the capital is again cause to open the gun debate across the nation now all the talking heads are saying that you've got to take away the guns to be safe well the problem is that the shooting happened right on the streets of the capital of a country where the guns have already been taken away paris france three kurdish women one of whom was a kurdish separatist party co-founder were shot dead at the scene of the crime was right outside of a cursed institute which leads the police to think that it was an assassination you see when it comes to terrorism drug cartels the mafia you can make all the gun laws that you want but the bad guys will still have plenty of guns because they live outside the law al qaeda and mexican drug cartels don't go to the stores and

patiently wait for their background checks to be done before they buy their guns taking away all the guns through legal means won't matter there will still be murder and there will still be armed thugs and terrorists but that's just my opinion. and live from moscow this is our team welcome back now catching at the train it took a bizarre twist in rural russia this week a man who survived after falling out of a carriage barely dressed for a night in a freezing siberian forest in the winter.